2017 Founders Brewing CBS - USA, Michigan (2/3/2018) Absolutely wonderful. The maple syrup is not overtly noticeable, but I believe it plays an important role in making this 11.7% brew drink all-too-easily. I get the hype. This is a 10/10 brew. Local hipsters here hated it. Like you I thought it wa...

I think modern times has big time quality issues. They just produce so much beer with so many different skus that it gets lost in everything. They have big big big time infection issues. Something that you won’t experience if you aren’t buying their stouts I know you had an issue with one beer that...

I can't keep up with the younger guys that are all new to the beer scene and camp out for all the new releases or are buying everything out at 2:00 PM on a work day. I've pretty much just started drinking local beers.

I've cut way back on trying new things. I'll still pick up a bottle that looks interesting when out shopping here and there but not chasing new releases at all anymore. So very very very very few have been worth the time and money. I've gone back to many of my favorites craft brewers that were doin...

R.I.P. Swami's? I've recently been through two six-packs with different canning dates, and both aren't even a shell of what Swami's normally is. Both Ashley and I were seriously left wondering if the correct beer made its way into the cans. Tasted like a malty IPA. I'm worried enough that I'm going...

I was around wine my whole life. Family vacations to Napa every year when I was a kid in the 70's. Inherited my Dad's cellar in '97 when I was 31 and drank through most of it by 2001. That's when it all really started for me. 51 now and haven't bought a bottle in two years, cellar is down to just ov...

http://i.imgur.com/6H7md8gl.jpg PSA Value Alert * Mikkeller Brewing Co. San Diego. Windy Hill IPA. 7% ABV. This batch is hopped with Chinook and Columbus hops. Great new fresh batch of Windy Hill now on shelves, at my LBS it's $ 12 and change for a 4 pack of 16oz cans. This is a lovely cross pollin...

Joe, let me know what you think of this one. We're up in Oakdale finishing up a couple schools and I brought a few growlers of monkish for everyone to enjoy tonight when we wrap, including more Atomically of course ! Cheers, Bud It's outstanding! The rest of this growler is going down during the LL...

http://i.imgur.com/FLRxhsZl.jpg Monkish Brewing Co. Atomically, DIPA, 8.3% ABV. Hopped with Citra, Mosaic and Galaxy. Yet another previously can only beer easily available for growler fills, I really like that Henry is doing this regularly now with the core line-up. There are three iterations of th...

http://i.imgur.com/FLRxhsZl.jpg Monkish Brewing Co. Atomically, DIPA, 8.3% ABV. Hopped with Citra, Mosaic and Galaxy. Yet another previously can only beer easily available for growler fills, I really like that Henry is doing this regularly now with the core line-up. There are three iterations of th...

Drats! Too late. I've been looking to get some nice beer glasses and I can't bring myself to pay the price for Teku glasses. just use a normal bordeaux stem. Why bother with those low rent teku glasses? I have these Zalto beer stems (and the speig ipa stems) but i always find myself reaching for my...

Looks like we have lots of experts on brewing here. Good to know. The only thing that grinding the grains to flour consistency will get you is a stuck mash. If someone is adding flour during fermentation, why? This makes no sense. Charlie is mostly right. You generally dry-hop at the end of ferment...

Bud, I grabbed a growler of that one, too. Like most Monkish DIPAs, however, I don't perceive a meaningful difference from most other Monkish DIPAs. Brian, we took my nephew and his GF to the Hollywood bowl last night, he's not a wine guy and loves Monkish so he asked me to bring a couple, so we ha...

Drank several Indie Brewing Company IPA Del Rey over last week and was also able to score a 4 pack before heading home. LA locals, whats the deal with these guys?? Just about a perfect IPA for my palette. You don't call? [cry.gif] I haven't heard of them. I'll keep an eye out. Jason I wish I would ...

Drank several Indie Brewing Company IPA Del Rey over last week and was also able to score a 4 pack before heading home. LA locals, whats the deal with these guys?? Just about a perfect IPA for my palette. Joe, they kinda get lost in the haze of breweries in and around LA/OC county that the new mone...

Drank several Indie Brewing Company IPA Del Rey over last week and was also able to score a 4 pack before heading home. LA locals, whats the deal with these guys?? Just about a perfect IPA for my palette.

I'd rather drink Coors Light or Stella than drink most of the dick-measuring-contest, lumber yard shavings tasting, "not double but triple hops!!" 9% alcohol craft beer these days. It's funny to me how diametrically opposite the board zeitgeist is about beer versus wine. Wine needs to be as low alc...

My experience with the Coors Light crowd is they don't want any part of the craft beer scene. You'll hear words like hipster, and fru fru. That's their bad. I always just bring my own and offer it to anyone to try.

I had a few from Second Self in Atlanta Saturday night. Their Margarita in Gose canned earlier that day was tart and tasty, with a little saltiness, a refreshing summer brew. The Manic Pixie Dream Beer #1, a Russian Imperial Oatmeal Stout aged for 11 months in BLiS bourbon-maple-syrup barrels, is a...

Parabola seems to be *widely* available this year. I bought four bottles the first time I saw it, not realizing how easy it would be to obtain. Did they permanently expand production of that one? (the brewed it at Boulevard brewing this year). The move to single serving bottles makes it look like t...

Back yesterday from taking my kids to Vegas for the first time. Wife and I made sure to pack some much needed liquid sustenance to keep up with them. Plowed thru the following while we were there: RRBC STS Pils RRBC Pliny the Elder Lawson's Sip of Sunshine Lawson's Super Session #2 The Alchemist He...

http://i.imgur.com/b0HiQ10l.jpg Lagunitas Born Yesterday Unfiltered Fresh Hop Pale Ale. 7% ABV, Mosaic Amarillo Equinox and other special varieties. Bottled and shipped the same day to retailers, hence the name. As fresh as it gets. Hoppy fragrant is an understatement, one of the best smelling PAs ...

Being in the Midwest I've never had a dog in this fight, but I've never cared for the aggressive West Coast IPA style. But then we don't have access to what would be considered the prime examples of NE style either, so hard to compare. I don't drink a lot of IPAs at all, but if I do then Michigan b...

Not for me. I'm sure i'm the outlier here, but I don't really care for the NE style. They're nice for a change of pace once in a while, but I'm a almost everyday West Coast drinker. I know a lot of guys here feel it's just too bitter, but a nice balanced West coast IPA with limited malt is just so r...